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Immich vs Ente ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago) by warmaster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Chosing the right photo app for my family

So, Immich vs Ente, this is my last piece of the selfhosted puzzle. Please help me make an informed decision:

Immich

on the plus side, it seems to have more features and it has a gazillion integrations with other selfhosted software. Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

Ente

looks like the opposite, more mature, scoped and less integrated.

Am I reading this right? Am I missing something?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I'm going with immich!

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Immich
Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK

Uh... that's news to me. I've been hosting 2 user's photos for 1.5 years with absolutely zero breaking changes. I just updating from v2 to v3 and nothing broke.

I briefly checked out Ente, but personally I have zero trust for any project that requires users to sign a CLA to contribute like Ente: https://github.com/ente/ente/pull/11084#issuecomment-4762402896

Immich doesn't do those shenanigans: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7023#discussioncomment-8433346

CLAs are bad because the project can change the license whenever they feel like it. So Ente is effectively reserving the right to go full evil with their CLA.

Whereas Immich can't suddenly decide they want to move away from AGPLv3.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2/

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 50 minutes ago

immich hasnt had any major breaking changes for a while in my experience using it for a few years, anything that does break is probably some third party integration or plugin that would have to wait for it's own maintainer to fix, that's pretty normal in the open source world.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ok, wow. Well, that kinda wraps it up for me. Fuck CLAs.